What subject is more conducive to romantic reverie than the night? And, great as Chopin's Nocturnes and Act II of Tristan are, few composers wrote better music of the night than Schubert. Thus it is wholly appropriate that Graham Johnson has recognized Schubert's predilection for night music in this the first of three volumes in his Schubert edition devoted to Schubert's music of the night. For the first volume of night music, Johnson has mezzo soprano Sarah Walker sing well-known night songs like the transcendent An den ...
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What subject is more conducive to romantic reverie than the night? And, great as Chopin's Nocturnes and Act II of Tristan are, few composers wrote better music of the night than Schubert. Thus it is wholly appropriate that Graham Johnson has recognized Schubert's predilection for night music in this the first of three volumes in his Schubert edition devoted to Schubert's music of the night. For the first volume of night music, Johnson has mezzo soprano Sarah Walker sing well-known night songs like the transcendent An den Mond (D. 259) and the exquisite Ständchen (D. 920) and lesser-known songs like the tender Die Mondnacht (D. 238) and the spooky Berta's Lied in der Nacht (D. 653). Walker has a sweet and well-modulated voice that admirably catches the sentimentality and sensuality of Schubert' night music. But Walker cannot quite project the narrative of Die junge Nonne nor the artful simplicity of Wiegenlied (D. 498), nor can she inhabit the world of pure terror of Schubert's overwhelmingly frightful...
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